Emancipation Quotes

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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light… — Frederick Douglass
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to… — Edgar Degas
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. — Abraham Lincoln
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the… — Anton Szandor LaVey
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor… — Ulysses S. Grant
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation. — Gerda Lerner
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and… — Amelia Bloomer
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the… — Arshile Gorky
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning… — Otto Weininger
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a… — Julian Assange
As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for emancipation. You are… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I… — David Walker
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of… — Sylvia Pankhurst
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human… — Mohammed Arkoun
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom… — Emily Procter
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think… — Zach Braff
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective. — Zach Braff
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate… — Adam Weishaupt
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self… — Ellen Key

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